Benjamin Harrison Clover Pin
Benjamin Harrison Clover Pin
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign pin was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1888. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer that is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and campaign medals.
- This pin has a head in the shape of a clover, and would have been worn. Each leaf is inscribed with a different word. The legend reads: RECIPROCATION PROTECTION OUR NATION’S PRIDE HARRISON.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- referenced
- Harrison, Benjamin
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 5.8 cm x 2.5 cm; 2 5/16 in x in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1196
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1196
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History